Bug, or configuration option I missed?

[Julian Field]

That's a very interesting one. Can you give me a repeatable setup that 
will reliably cause this problem?
What scanner was it that ran into trouble?
This one is definitely worth further investigation.

Jules.

randyf at sibernet.com wrote:
>
>
> Hi Folks-
>
>   I had an interesting failure overnight that effectively was caused 
> by a corrupted library for the virus scanner.  This caused the virus 
> scanner to time out in the eyes of MailScanner (and dump a lot of 
> corefiles), and MailScanner then proceeded to believe that this was a 
> silent virus and toss it as any of the other silent viruses 
> (MailScanner thought it was a denial of service attack).
>
>   If there isn't a configuration option to deal with this scenario, 
> what would be better than tossing messages, would have been to 
> quarantine the messages.  But as in my case, I suspect that other 
> checks in MailScanner would have caught a possible virus in that 
> flurry, it would have been best to send the message through the 
> remaining tests, and flag it somehow as not passing virus scanning.
>
>   Is this a bug/feature-request, or did I miss a configuration option 
> to handle virus scanner failures?
>
>   Thanks!
>
>
> RF

Jules

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